Band-lamp support



(No Model!) 0. E. SMITH. BAND LAMP SUPPORT.

No. 443,212. Patented Dec. 23. 1890.

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CHARLES E. SMITH, OF CAMBRIDGE, NEIV YORK.

BAND-LAMP SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,212, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed July 28, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at 0am bridge, county of Washington, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Band-Lamp Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

I Figure 1 is a View in front elevation of my improved band-lamp support in position for use, a part of the form of the wearer being outlined by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the wire support detached when occupying the same position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the wire support, taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig. 1, a portion of the lamp being shown by solid lines.

A single wire A is bent to form the approximately horizontal bend A, the loops A and the terminal depending legs A and A The lower ends of the legs are each secured to a strap or belt B, adapted to be buckled around the chest of the wearer, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the bend is supported in a position just above the shoulder, as shown partly by dotted lines. The looped arm of the bend is preferably longer than the other arm, and is also connected with the belt by short adjustable straps B at the back. The upper ends of the straps are secured in the loops, which serve to prevent them from slipping lengthwise of the arm while in use.

The connecting-straps serve to retain the wire support firmly in place upon the shoulders of the wearer, and their adjustability, as well as the adjustability of the belt, per mits the support to be readily fitted to different-sized persons. By having the arms of the bend between the bend and the depending legs of unequal lengths the supporting- Serial No. 860,174. (No model.)

legs are separated from each other and afford to the horizontal bend a stable support.

The lamp may be secured to the bend in any known manner. I have shown a horizontal slot 0 in the depending flange or base 0' of the lamp 0 adapted to receive the bend. The lamp shown by dotted lines (3 in Fig. 1 is slid onto the bend, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, where it may be held by the friction of the wire upon the slot-walls, or in any known manner, the bend forming a holder for the lamp.

By constructing the supporting device partly of wire and partly of flexible straps I am able to impart to it the necessary rigidity when in use and to fold it into a small space for transportation when not in use. The length of the depending wire legs and the connecting-straps is such as to hold the front and rear portion of the belt above the parts passing under the arms, which prevents an uncomfortable pressure upon the chest when the lungs are inflated.

I do not wish to be limited to the exact form shown for the wire support, nor to a single integral wire.

The leg A may be connected directly with the longer arm of the lamp-holder A, as shown by dotted lines A in Fig. 2, and the holder-bend A turned up to a Vertical position to engage with the side of the lamp, as shown by dotted lines A in Fig. 1.

tVhen desired, one or both of the arms of the bend may be provided with a notch D, adapted to receive the flange-edges formed in the base of the lamp by the slot 0.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a bandlamp support consisting of a lamp-holder which occupies a position above the shoulder when in use, depending lugs connected at their upper ends with the holder at unequal distances from the shoulder, and a belt connected on one side with the lower ends of the dependinglegs and on the opposite side with the holder by a connecting-strap, substan tially as described.

2. In a band-lamp support, the combination,

with a lnin 'ri-holder hating a supporting-mm I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set and depending legs connected at their upper my hand this 25th day of July, 1800. ends with the supporting-arm at unequal (lis- HLIICGSflOIlltllO1&l1l17-l101d01,0f an adjustable CHARLES E. SMITH. 5 belt connected with the lower ends of the legs,

and a strap connection between the belt and Witnesses: the supporting-arm, substantially as de- E, B. CORNELL, scribed. J BYRNE. 

